Thank you, Duncan. Indeed those packages were sitting in a temp directory. I had to install them manually from a 'zip file.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 05/11/2015 1:00 PM, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote: >> >> I am using a windows laptop, R 3.2.2 >> >> I am using R-gui. >> >> When I go to Packages -> Update packages and then select a Cran mirror >> (in the US) - it tells me to update the following packages: >> >> GLMMGibbs >> RDCOMClient >> Rstem >> survnnet >> yags >> >> I click OK and then I get successful update messages, like: >> >> trying URL >> 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/survnnet_1.1-3.zip' >> Content type 'application/zip' length 235981 bytes (230 KB) >> downloaded 230 KB >> >> trying URL >> 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.2/yags_4.0-2.2.zip' >> Content type 'application/zip' length 205372 bytes (200 KB) >> downloaded 200 KB >> >> package ‘survnnet’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> package ‘yags’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked >> >> Then I to to Packages -> Update packages, and exactly the same >> packages as before appear - as if I didn't just update them. >> >> What could be the reason? I tried to totally delete the folders of >> those packages, install them from scratch (successfully), still - they >> keep appearing in Update Pacakges widnow. >> >> Any advice? > > > It may be installing them to a personal library rather than the system one > (to which you typically don't have write permission). > > You should be getting messages about this, but they might be hidden; if you > run > > update.packages() > > it might be easier to see the messages. You can also try running > .libPaths() to see what libraries are searched. > > Duncan Murdoch > -- Dimitri Liakhovitski ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.